After Sampige Road now the turn of Bannerghatta Road
After Mantri Developers which recently witnessed widening woes on Sampige Road, now the turn of Bannerghatta Road. BBMP Bangalore aims to make it 45 metres to ease the traffic congestion. This is one of the roads notified in the Revised Master Plan 2015 to be made a 45 metre-wide road. The Mantri Developers will have to give up some area as Mantri Elegance, a residential apartment, has been notified for acquisition of 5.17 metres.
BBMP Bangalore has identified portions of 800 properties to be acquired for widening. Four major hospitals, the premier IIM-B and many commercial units will have to give up a portion of their premises for the project. Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology (3.3 metres), Sagar Hospital (2 metres) , Fortis (5.7 metres) and Apollo Hospital (7 metres) will lose the front portion of their properties as per the markings made by BBMP on these buildings.
The present width of the road is 30 metres and BBMP aims to make it 45 metres to ease the traffic congestion. Though no markings were made on some of the properties, including heritage structures like Meenakshi Sundaram temple, they might have to give away a portion of the property for widening, said Gottigere corporator A N Purushottam.
“The discussion is still on with regard to three temples located on this stretch. Arakere Ganesha temple, Gottigere Anjaneya temple are the other two,” he said. However, BBMP officials said that the compound wall portion of Meenakshi Sundaram temple will have to be demolished for roadwidening. “The markings on the temple have not been done. This is to avoid public wrath,” said a BBMP official.
BBMP is yet to ascertain the number of trees that will have to be axed for widening, but on a rough estimate, a minimum 250 trees will be affected. The corporation has plans to construct three-four flyovers in Arakere, Hulimavu and Bilekahalli as part of the signal free corridor project.
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I welcome this move, being a non IT guy who have my roots in BG road for years… and truubled by traffic jams..